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This is Scientific American 60-second science. I'm Jay Daisy U. Husk. Got a minute?

Everybody lies, but for the most part, we still see ourselves as good, honest people.

So why do we do it? And are we all just kidding ourselves?

So is lying or being dishonesty rational? Sometimes, sometimes not.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely at Duke University studies irrational behavior.

In recent years, he has found himself drawn to mendacity, prevarication, fabrication, you know, lying.

Now Ariely has teamed up with documentarian Yael Melamede to create a film called Dishonesty.

Through a series of interviews, the movie presents real-world cases of cheating,

corruption, and little white lies alongside Ariely's scientific findings. In the process, it becomes

clear that the differences between serious fraud and a minor fib may be less significant than we

want to believe. Originally, we were going to call the movie a slippery slope, because so many

people basically started doing something, rationalized,

took another step, another step.

Our knack for explaining and reinterpreting our actions allows us to feel like we are still

basically honest, no matter how far we stray from our values.

But just because we can rationalize our dishonesty does not mean we're acting rationally.

Fudging the facts might, for example, get you through one tricky situation,

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